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Second World War Anti Aircraft
1,666 wordsTanks have been very influential in warfare ever since the first Great War. They started out as a way to cross the muck filled trenches of the first World War to one of the most powerful ways to attack the enemy. The United States Armed Forces tanks have been some of the greatest of the wide variety of tanks. The most interesting and powerful of these giants in the United States arsenal are: the Abrams, the M 60, the Sheridan, the Patton, the Sherman, and the Chaffee models. Some of these tanks ...
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State And Federal Prison Population
473 wordsOne of America's biggest problems today is the overcrowding of prisons. This began when the population of inmates started to soar in the 1980 's. With the increase of rapist, murderers, and drug dealers skyrocketing, there is no reason to this overpopulation. The nation responds to this by building prison at a fast pace. But the construction has not kept pace with the soaring population of inmates. The number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal correctional authorise at the end of 199...
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Frictional Unemployment Structural Unemployment
663 wordsIn compiling unemployment statistics for the United States and other developed countries an unemployed person is defined as anyone who is capable of working and is actively seeking work but is unable to find a job. 1 Before a person can be unemployed in this sense he must be an active member of the labor force in search of a job. Students and Homemakers perform work, but they are not considered employed unless they are paid; however, they are not considered unemployed unless they are actively se...
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Long Sleeve Sweater Justin And James Picture
807 wordsI have known these two characters for a little more than four years now and never once have I seen a straight face. These two are always making jokes or making fun of each other. The person in the black long sleeve sweater with a silver chain necklace over hanging his shirt is one of my best friends named Justin. The person in the white long sleeve sweater with his sleeves rolled up and his Rolex watch on his wrist is one or my best friends named James. This photograph was taken last year when J...
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North Korea Working Class
552 wordsHe was born on April 15, 1912, Pyongyang, to a poor family. His family, a most patriotic and revolutionary one, was in the best of the people's fight for many generations, from the beginning of the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean people for the independence of the country, the freedom and liberation of the people and for the victory of the noble revolutionary best of the working class. He grew up, receiving his revolutionary education at home and acquiring a revolutionary outlook on ...
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The Manhattan Project Of World War Ii History
796 wordsThroughout the course of history, especially in past wars, one can decipher a single point that led to the end of that event / war . All thought World War II had many events transpire which led to its completion, one of the most prominent and immediate effects which brought about the end of the war was the development of the Atomic Bomb. Developed through the research and funding of the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Bomb was used to cause Japan to surrender World War II and thereby effectively e...
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Viet Cong Special Forces
1,039 wordsThe book that I read for my book report was The Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold and John Penycate. The reason that I chose this book was because I am very interested in various aspects of certain wars and I definitely am intrigued by tunnel warfare of the Vietnam Conflict. Imagine being in a war and coming across a tunnel in the middle of the jungle. You have no idea what is in the tunnel but you think it may be the enemy. Your commander asks for volunteers to go in and investigate. Do you volu...
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On Affirmative Action In America
1,031 wordsAffirmative action applies to employers in hiring and promoting minorities and women, governments in reserving a portion of their contracts for businesses owned by minorities and women, and colleges and universities in admitting minorities and women (Welch, 504). The history of affirmative action has its roots in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which stemmed from the 1954 United States Supreme Court Case of Brown vs. Board of Education. In this case, the Court ruled unanimously that school segregat...
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Dead Sea Scrolls Jewish People
1,278 wordsOne of the latest findings in the archeological world was recently revealed to the public on March this year in the village of Kfar Kana, North of Israel. Several subterranean galleries, passageways and pits were discovered leading scholars to believe that they were used as hiding places during the first Jewish war in the middle of the first century A. D. At a first assumption, the tunnels seem they were very well planned in advance. One hypothesis could be that the Hebrews built those tunnels n...
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Downward Spiral Lasting Impression
1,050 words... om the depression. The Works Progress Administration was then formed out of the CWA. It also was the most successful of all the New Deal programs, as it pulled over $ 10 billion into the economy within only three years, (1935 - 1938). There was a heavy emphasis on spending money on wages rather than machinery or materials- the use of human labor was valued. Roosevelt favored this program because it had an emphasis on creating jobs as a way of maintaining morale by de-emphasizing welfare-like...
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Iron Ore La Plata
797 wordsThe Pantanal wetlands are the largest wetlands in the world, spanning an area of 210, 000 km 2, a region the size of South Dakota and over ten times the current size of the Everglades in Florida (Silveria). The vast area contains over 600 bird and about 300 fish species and provides homeland to over 1. 8 million people (The waterway 40). In 1993 only forty wood stork pairs nested in the Everglades compared to over one hundred times that in the Pantanal (Eckstrom 54). This majestic wetland area, ...
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One Of The Main Main Reasons
573 wordsCasinos have become Casinos Casinos Casinos have become a large part of cities economy and hundreds of thousands of peoples lives. Casinos are exciting for many people who feel they have a chance to win it big. Because so much money is flowing into casinos, the local business are being affected. Most are not thriving with the new tourism and the seemingly revived economy. In 1994 more people made the trip to a casino then to a ball park (Popkin). The casinos are attracting so much of Americans d...
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Middle Class Families Stock Market
623 wordsThe United States had experienced a decade of change and prosperity in the 1920 s. World War I was over, the boys were home, and new business was booming. There was a consumer goods revolution fueled by a few major industries. One of the most prominent industries was the automobile industry. Automobile sales increased dramatically after World War I. The automobile changed the lifestyle of Americans. It was now possible to work in the city, but live in a suburban area. Before the automobile, peop...
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Great Pyramid Meters High
576 wordsThe Great Pyramid The great pyramid was built during the reign of Khufu, 2 nd king of the fourth dynasty (2, 720 - 2, 560 BC). It stands on the Giza plateau nearby Cairo and is the biggest pyramid in the world. It measures 230 m (756 ft) on each side of its base and originally measured 147 m (482 ft) high. Beginning in the 10 th century AD the entire Giza complex served as a source of building materials for the construction of Cairo; as a result, all three pyramids were stripped of their origina...
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Lake Michigan Great Lakes
814 wordsChicago Tim SchochChicago is a port and transportation center on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois. It has a population of 2, 783, 726 and has been the seat of Cook County since 1931. Long known as the nations second city, Chicago dropped to third place among largest U. S. cities during the 1980 s as its population declined during the decade by 7. 4 %. Its three-state metropolitan area showed a slight increase, totaling 8, 065, 633. Many of Chicagos people are offs...
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Middle Aged Man Clich
1,428 wordsLolita is perhaps one of the most disturbing novels of the century: it tells the immoral story of a middle- aged man who falls in love with a twelve year- old girl (a nymphet, as he calls her) and has a sexual relationship with her for over two years, until she disappears with another more perverse middle- aged man. What makes this novel particularly disturbing is the fact that Humbert's sexual perversion is disguised in highly poetic garb and that the only monitor of virtue is the gifted perver...
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Heavy Equipment One Construction
249 wordsChoose one of your extracurricular or work activities and explain why it has been of value to you. I have always been an out-doors type person. Furthermore, there has always been one interest of mine that has only grown stronger throughout the years, from as far back as I can remember. It probably all started with my first Tonka Truck when I was just a little guy. For some reason, I have always enjoyed, or perhaps been enthralled by, heavy equipment and the outdoors. I have always loved walking ...
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World War Ii Mexican Immigrants
650 wordsfactories and steel mills, left behind to perform the jobs once carried out by the soldiers who were abroad fighting the war. After World War II, immigration to the United States increased once again. Many people who had survived Nazi persecution in Europe fled to the United States. Additionally, Chinese immigrants were entering the country. A big construction boom marked these years. The suburbs were growing rapidly and the automobile industry was flourishing. Many of the Western European immig...
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Miles Per Hour Large Amount
1,472 wordsDangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes Floods and hurricanes have been effecting the lives of people around the world for years. This research paper is going to state some of the worst floods and hurricanes, and how future ones can be controlled. A flood is an overflow of water on dry land. The two types of floods are coastal and river floods. Coastal floods are the first topic in this research paper. A coastal flood is the flooding of beaches and surrounding areas; including bar spit...
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Second World War Third Generation
1,600 wordsTHE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS IN UKRAINE AND THE FORMER USSR The government and the authorities had paid serious attention to the development of the computer industry right after the Second World War. The leading bodies considered this task to be one of the principal for the national economy. Up to the beginning of the 1950 s there were only small productive capacities which specialized in the producing accounting and account-perforating (punching) machines. The electronic numerical computer engi...
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